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Do high-income or low-income immigrants leave faster?
Bijwaard, Govert; Wahba, Jackline - 2013
We estimate the impact of the income earned in the host country on return migration of labor migrants from developing countries. We use a three-state correlated competing risks model to account for the strong dependence of labor market status and the income earned. Our analysis is based on...
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Immigrants' wage growth and selective out-migration
Bijwaard, Govert; Wahba, Jackline - 2014
This paper examines immigrant wage growth taking into account selective out-migration using administrative data from the Netherlands. We also take into account the potential endogeneity of the immigrants' labor supply and their out-migration decisions on their earning profiles using a correlated...
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Faith and assimilation: Italian immigrants in the US
Gagliarducci, Stefano; Tabellini, Marco - 2021
Ethnic religious organizations are often blamed for slowing down immigrants' assimilation in host societies. This paper offers the first systematic evidence on this topic by focusing on Italian Catholic churches in the US between 1890 and 1920, when four million Italians had moved to America,...
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The impact of immigration and integration policies on immigrant-native labor market hierarchies
Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin; Kureková, Lucia Mýtna - 2022
Across European Union (EU) labor markets, immigrant and native populations exhibit disparate labor market outcomes, signifying widespread labor market hierarchies. While significant resources have been invested in migration and integration policies, it remains unclear whether these contribute to...
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The acceleration of immigrant unhealthy assimilation
Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 2016
It is well-known that immigrants tend to be healthier than US natives and that this advantage erodes with time spent in the US. However, we know less about the heterogeneity of these trajectories among arrival cohorts. Recent studies have shown that later arrival cohorts of immigrants have lower...
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Burden or relief? : fiscal impacts of recent Ukrainian migration to Poland
Kaczmarczyk, Paweł - 2015
) assessing empirically net fiscal position of Ukrainian immigrants in Poland. On the theoretical level we show that there exists … analysis presented. Net fiscal position of Ukrainian immigrants in Poland is unequivocally positive (and more beneficial than …
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Costs and benefits of labor mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Countries : the case of Poland
Duszczyk, Maciej; Góra, Marek; Kaczmarczyk, Paweł - 2013
Poland is a country being exposed to emigration and immigration flows relatively recently. That, among others, results … structure all existing data and other pieces of information on immigrants coming to Poland from the EU Eastern Partnership … hand also a vast majority of them come to Mazowieckie (Warsaw) Voivodeship. The study also confirms Poland is often not a …
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The impact of migration on productivity and native-born workers' training
Campo, Francesco; Forte, Giuseppe; Portes, Jonathan - 2018
We investigate the relationship between migration and productivity in the UK, using an instrumental variable along the lines suggested by Bianchi, Buonanno and Pinotti (2012). Our results suggest that immigration has a positive and significant impact (in both the statistical sense and more...
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UK migration policy and migration from Eastern Partnership countries
Clark, Kenneth; Drinkwater, Stephen J. - 2013
This paper examines UK migration policy and recent migration flows from Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries to the UK. Although inflows of migrant workers were relatively large in the mid-2000s, especially amongst Ukrainians, these have fallen following changes to UK immigration policy,...
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Unintended consequences? : the changing composition of immigration to the UK after Brexit
Portes, Jonathan - 2024
The end of free movement and the introduction of the post-Brexit migration system represent the most important changes to the UK migration system in half a century. Coinciding with the aftereffects of the pandemic, the result has been very large changes both to the numbers of those coming for...
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